Toxic waste

...and becoming more special as it was allowed to recover. Mining would be devastating, he said. "The experience we have from overseas and in some cases in New Zealand is that those tailings (toxic waste) cannot be contained forever."

In this article: Tailings and New Zealand

...first started attacking large foreign trawlers they blamed for devastating the local fish stocks and ships they believed were dumping toxic waste on their shores. In Nigeria, angry communities targeted employees of the oil giants who polluted...

In this article: Nigeria, Benin, Somalia, West Africa, and Hamburg, Germany

In this article: Nigeria, Benin, Somalia, West Africa, and Hamburg, Germany

...the release of two executives from the Dutch company Trafigura imprisoned in the Ivory Coast in 2007 followed the alleged unloading of toxic waste. Halligen is accused of using the funds for his own benefit including buying a mansion in...

In this article: Madeleine McCann, Oxford, US Department Of Justice, London, Thames Valley Police, and Trafigura

...money was meant to have been used to help secure the release of two high-level employees of the Dutch company accused of dumping toxic waste in West Africa. In September 2006, Claude Dauphin, the president of the company, and another...

In this article: Allegation, Google Earth, and Trafigura

...innocent. Libel law hit the headlines last month amid claims that a so-called 'super-injunction' was being used to prevent the reporting of parliamentary questions about a report into the alleged dumping of toxic waste. Post a Comment

In this article: Sunday Times, Defendant, Burden of proof, UK, and US

...Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle A disposal company has withdrawn its controversial plan to import toxic wastes from Mexico and burn them at its incinerator just outside Port Arthur. Veolia Environmental Services notified the federal...

In this article: Veolia, EPA, Port Arthur, Mexico, Waste, Cancer, and Environmental Protection Agency

...in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases in history. The Ecuadorean claimants said the company illegally dumped toxic waste from its oil production, which filtered into the lakes used by thousands of people for washing and...

In this article: Chevron, Texaco, Ecuador, Cancer, Petroecuador, Daryl Hannah, and US Environmental Protection Agency

Billy Leonard criticised the authorities for not warning the public sooner Illegal fuel launderers who dumped 20 tonnes of toxic waste on land owned by an education board went undetected for three years, it has been claimed. Sinn Fein...

In this article: Waste, HM Revenue And Customs, Litter, Sinn Fein, and Northern Ireland